Millipede - Wikipedia
Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") [1][2] are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature.
Diplopoda - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Diplopods possess more legs than any other animal. Unlike the chilopods, diplopods are secretive and prefer to hide from predators rather than challenge them. Diplopods do not pose any real danger to humans.
Diplopoda (Millipedes) - Encyclopedia.com
Many-legged, often long-bodied, segmented animals with antennae; also possessing two pairs of legs on each body segment. The segments, which are actually two somites fused together, are called diplosegments. The class Diplopoda contains about 10,000 described species in 15 orders and 148 families.
Millipede | Invertebrate, Diplopoda, Exoskeleton | Britannica
2024年11月22日 · millipede, (class Diplopoda), any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda, distributed worldwide and commonly grouped with several other classes as myriapods. The approximately 10,000 species live in and eat decaying plant matter; some injure living plants, and a few are predators and scavengers.
ADW: Diplopoda: INFORMATION
Most of the approximately 8000 species of millipedes are herbivores or scavengers, living primarily on decaying plant and animal matter in moist microhabitats. Some species are adept and powerful burrowers. Like centipedes, female millipedes lay …
Subphylum Myriapoda, Class Diplopoda - ScienceDirect
2015年1月1日 · Millipedes (classs Diplopoda) are terrestrial saprophagous arthropods. This paper gives a short description of their classification, biogeography, anatomy and physiology, mainly focusing on problems faced by diplopods in freshwater. Some 'subaquatic' species are well adapted to water and can survive long periods of submersion.
Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) - SpringerLink
The Class Diplopoda is one of six classes in the Subphylum Atelocerata of the Phylum Arthropoda. The other classes in the subphylum are Chilopoda, the centipedes; Pauropoda, the pauropods; Symphyla, the symphylans; Entognatha, the collembolans, proturans, and diplurans; and Insecta, the insects.
Diplopoda - Animalia
Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature. Each double-legged segment is a result of two single segments fused together.
Millipede Taxonomy after 250 Years: Classification and Taxonomic …
2012年5月15日 · The arthropod class Diplopoda is a mega-diverse group comprising >12,000 described millipede species. The history of taxonomic research within the group is tumultuous and, consequently, has yielded a questionable higher-level classification.
Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: a review - ResearchGate
2009年1月1日 · diplopods have large altitudinal ranges from the alpine zone down to the lower forest belts. In northern Eurasia and Canada, mountains are too cold to harbour many or even any millipede...